To take only the heartland of Chinese emigration-Chinese, Taiwan and Hong Kong-the marked increases in migration during the decade of the 1980s are clear (see table 2.1). As foreign trade, foreign investment and the market economy burgeoned in China, so emigration accelerated. Some 37,395 entered the United States in the fiscal year 2002 compared with just under 80,000 for the five year from 1982 to 1987. Hong Kong’s trend is equally clear (see p 69). In Taiwan, the downturn following the rise in emigration, Taiwan, mirrors Korea.